Combined bottle-opener and cigar-cutter.



J. L. SUMMER. commmn BOTTLE ormmn AND CIGAR CUTTER. APPLICATION I'ILBI) H2346. 1907.

9365678. Patented 0ct.12,1.909.

- WITNESSES 4 TTOHNEY UNITED STATES JOHN L. S'OMMER, or NEWA-ERK, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED Borne-OPENER am) eromou'rrnn.

Specification of To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that '1, JOHN L. SOMMER,.& citizen of the United States, residing 1n Newark, in the county ofEssex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Bottle-Openersand Cigar-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a device which' can be conveniently carried in the pocket, as upon a key-ring, and employed either to openbottles or remove the tips of cigars; to so combine a bottle opener and a cigar cutter that either when not in use becomes a handle for the other; to enable different kinds of bottle stoppers to be removed; to secure a simple and compact construction, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures, Figure 1 shows a bottom view of the combination bottle opener and cigar cutter; Fig. 2, an edge view thereof, and Fig. 3 a top view thereof, in connection with a key ring.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the body portion of the combination bottle opener and cigar cutter; the said'body portion being a sheetmetal shank or handle enlarged at one end, as at 2, and provided in thisenlarged portion with an opening 3. The rear portion 4 of the body portion is adapted to rest over the top of a crown seal or like bottle cap, the opening 3 receiving a portion of such cap, so that the beveled edge 5 at the other side of opening 3 is underneath the edge of the bottle cap. With a bottle opener in this position, it may be used as a lever to remove the bottle cap, as is common. The other end of the body portion has a longitudinal projecting lip 11, adapted to either enter that kind of bottle cap which seats into the bottle neck, for removing the same, or. to be used in pryingopen cigar boxes. Adjacent to this end 11, a notch 12 is provided in one edge of the handle for use in pulling the nails of cigar boxes.

Intermediate of its ends the shank or handle is narrowed with respect to its part 13 having the said notch 12, and provides parallel longitudinal edges 14, 14:. The said part 13 also has an aperture 8 adapted to receive the tip of a cigar, said opening pref- Lett r l t Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

Application filed February 26, 1907. Serial No. 359,454.

erably having its edges beveled at one side of the handle or shank. Upon the said liar-- rowed portion of the handle or shank, a sliding cutter 9 is mounted, preferably comprisln a piece of sheet metal with its opposite 51 e edges bent over the said parallel edges 14 of the handle or shank, as at 15, 15. The end of said cutter next the aperture 8 is the kmfe 16 adapted to sheer across said aperture, and the opposite end has a transverse Ill) 10 adapted for en agement by the thumb to slide the cutter. l otted lines indicate in Fig. 1 the forward position of the cutter. This cutter forms a clasp extending a large portionof the length of the narrow handle portion, and which clasp reinforces and stifiens said narrow handle portion when the same is pressed upon to use the tool as a bottle opener;

\ Obviously, the part 13 serves as a stop for the cutter at that end of the handle, and the enlarged portion 2 similarly limits its movement at the other end. Either end of the device may be used to open a bottle, according to the kind of cap, and meanwhile'the rest of the device forms grasping means; also, when the device is employed in cutting a cigar, the end bottle-cap engaging portions constitute grasping means.

I have shown a slot 6 in the edge 5 of the opening 3, so that when the device is put on a key-ring 7, the ring may be retired into said slot to be out of the way in opening a bottle with this end, as-illustrated in Fig. 3.

When not in use, the whole device hangs as easily from a key-ring as does a key.

Changes within the scope of the claims as construed by the prior art may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. The hereindescribed bottle opener and cigar cutter, consisting ofa flat body portionhaving op osite widened ends adapted to engage different kinds of bottle caps and a narrow handle between said widened ends providing a slideway and an aperture for a cigar tip, and a cutter mounted on said slldeway of the handle so as to move across said aperture and reinforcing said narrow cigar cutter, consisting of a body portion having an end adapted to engage a bottle and stop means for said cutter on said han said end a cutter upon one side of said hanc-ap and a handle portion with parallel londle portion at the opposite side of the cutter gitudinal edges and a cigar tip aperture, from the said bottle cap engaging end. said handle portion being narrower than JOHN L. SOMMER;

In the presence of- ELSIE A. MAY,

FREDERICK GERMANN, Jr.

dleportlon with its edges slidably overlapping the said edges of the handle portion, 

